The Ummah’s Self-Inflicted Wound

We are facing the biggest war in history. The war of the end times. It is literal, it is here, and we need to be prepared.

But we are not prepared. And the reason is not our enemy’s strength.

It is our own division.

The single greatest factor weakening this Ummah is sectarianism. Not Western military power. Not economic sanctions. Not intelligence operations. Sectarianism. The one wound we inflict on ourselves, generation after generation, while our enemies watch and wait.

So let me say this plainly.

The overarching message of Islam is one:

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله.

No God except Allah, and Muhammad is His messenger and the seal of prophethood.

Anyone who testifies to this truth is a Muslim—unless we hear from them the word of blasphemy, or until we see from them the act of shirk.

This means the two major communities of Islam—Sunni and Shia—are under the same umbrella. Both testify. Both pray. Both fast. Both submit.

They are Muslims. And Muslims must unite against their common enemy.

The Enemy Has One Target

It is more obvious now than at any point in history: the Zionist project has only one enemy in mind.

Islam.

This is not speculation. This has been confirmed by the leaders of Zionism themselves—by Netanyahu, by the architects of American foreign policy, by the very people directing the war machine. The war that the United States and Israel have waged on Iran is not a war on the Shia alone. It is a war on Islam.

When you understand the ultimate goal of the Zionist movement—to establish a Greater Israel across the heart of the Middle East—you understand that the strategy requires the removal of Arabs from the region entirely. The religion that unites those Arabs is the real obstacle. So they wage war on the religion.

Pay attention to what is happening.

Iran did not start this war. This has been confirmed by the United States and Israel themselves. Iran has the right to defend itself. But the war has a dimension that is being exploited masterfully. Iran’s retaliatory strikes have hit American military facilities based in neighboring countries. So the people of the Gulf say: “Iran is attacking our homes. Iran is invading our sovereign land.”

And just like that, the masses forget the real enemy.

The entity working to eliminate all Arabs and dismantle Islam as a living force—forgotten. Replaced in the public mind by Iran as the common threat. This manufactured redirection has led so-called Muslims to do the unthinkable: support Zionists in their war against fellow Muslims.

Allah warned us about exactly this:

لَا يَتَّخِذِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِن دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

“Let not the believers take the disbelievers as allies instead of the believers.” — Surah Aal-e-Imran (3:28)

Every Muslim who has allied with Zionism against a Muslim nation has placed themselves in danger—danger of God’s wrath in this life and in the next. This is not rhetoric. This is the Quran.

The Root Problem

But geopolitics is a symptom. The root is deeper.

So long as Muslims identify as “Sunni” and “Shia” before they identify as Muslim, they will always be divided. And divided people are conquered, people. This has never changed.

This is not a new insight. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ understood this fourteen hundred years ago. In a famous hadith, he said:

سألتُ ربِّي ثلاثاً فأعطاني اثنتينِ ومَنعني عن واحدةٍ. سألتُ ربِّي أن لا يسلِّطَ عليْهم عدوًّا من غيرِهم فيجتاحُهم فأعطانيها وسألتُهُ ألا يُهلِكَهم بسنَةٍ عامة فأعطانيها وسألتَهُ ألا يجعلَ بأسَهم بينَهم فمنعنيها

“I asked my Lord for three things. He granted me two and withheld one. I asked Him not to let an external enemy overwhelm them—He granted it. I asked Him not to destroy them by widespread famine—He granted it. And I asked Him not to let their destruction come from within themselves—and He withheld it.”

Read that again.

No outside force would annihilate this Ummah. No famine will wipe us out. But God refused to guarantee that we would not destroy ourselves from within.

Our greatest threat—is not the enemy. It is us. Turning on each other.

The Quran confirms this from every angle:

وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا

“And hold firmly to the rope of Allah, all together, and do not be divided.” — Surah Aal-e-Imran (3:103)

وَتَقَطَّعُوا أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ زُبُرًا ۖ كُلُّ حِزْبٍ بِمَا لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ

“But they divided their affair among themselves into factions, each group rejoicing in what it has.” — Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:53)

الَّذِينَ فَرَّقُوا دِينَهُمْ وَكَانُوا شِيَعًا

“Those who have divided their religion and become sects.” — Surah Al-An’am (6:159)

Every faction. Rejoicing in its own position. While the enemy advances.

Name the Enemy Clearly

And who is this enemy?

Let me say it so there is no ambiguity.

They are the Zionists. The state of Israel. The United States that funds, arms, and shields them. These are Yajuj wa Majuj—the corrupters who have been spreading corruption on earth and altering the creation of God.

They are the architects of the Epstein network. The practitioners of black magic, witchcraft, and devil worship. The ones who rape, who traffic, who drink the blood of children and sacrifice them in rituals that mock everything sacred.

These are the people responsible for the modification of the weather through chemtrails. The poisoning of our water with chlorine and fluoride. The coercion of mass vaccination programs. The genetic modification of our food supply. The promotion of homosexuality, transsexuality, and gender fluidity as normative values designed to dismantle the natural order God established.

These are the people who wage wars to sustain the dollar—even if it means killing humanity as a whole.

And the Prophet ﷺ warned us.

Zainab bint Jahsh, may Allah be pleased with her, narrated that the Prophet ﷺ came to her one day in a state of alarm, his face flushed red, saying:

لا إله إلا الله، ويلٌ للعرب من شرٍّ قد اقترب، فُتح اليوم من ردم يأجوج ومأجوج مثل هذه

“None has the right to be worshipped but Allah. Woe to the Arabs from an evil that has drawn near. Today, a breach has been opened in the barrier of Yajuj and Majuj like this”—and he made a circle with his thumb and index finger.

She asked: “Shall we be destroyed even though there are righteous among us?”

He said: نعم، إذا كثر الخبث — “Yes, when wickedness prevails.”

— Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

The evil that has drawn near to the Arabs is not vague. The Prophet ﷺ tied it directly to the release of Yajuj and Majuj. The breach in their barrier. The beginning of their emergence into the world.

And there is more.

In Sahih Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ described what Yajuj and Majuj will do when they are fully released:

فيمرّ أوائلهم على بحيرة طبرية فيشربون ما فيها، ويمرّ آخرهم فيقولون: لقد كان بهذه مرّة ماء

“The first of them will pass by the Lake of Tiberias (the Sea of Galilee) and drink all that is in it. And the last of them will pass by it and say: ‘There was once water here.’”

— Sahih Muslim

Now look at what is happening today. The Sea of Galilee—the very lake the Prophet ﷺ named—has dropped to its lowest level since 1980. The winter of 2024–2025 was the driest in the region in over a century. The water level is falling at more than 2.5 meters per year—more than double the rate of any previous drought. The Jordan River’s flow has reached its lowest recorded level. Israel has been forced to pump desalinated Mediterranean seawater into the lake for the first time in history in a desperate attempt to prevent total collapse.

The lake that the Prophet ﷺ said Yajuj and Majuj would drain is drying before our eyes. And the people who recently occupied the land surrounding it—the very people draining its resources, diverting its waters, and controlling its fate—are the Israelis.

Connect the dots.

Muslims in general and Arabs in particular face an existential threat. This is prophecy manifesting in real time, for anyone with eyes to see.

What Is Required of You

In 2026, we need to be alert.

We need to put aside the books that play on deepening the divide between Sunni and Shia. We need to stop consuming content designed to increase the negative charge between the two communities. We need to set aside, for now, the historical narrations that do nothing but fuel division.

I am not saying the differences don’t exist. I am not saying there will never be a time to sit down and reach a resolution over what happened in the first two centuries after the Prophet ﷺ.

But 2026 is not that time.

This is the time to focus every energy against Zionism—the expansionist oligarchy that wants to destroy everyone who testifies to the One and Only God.

I started with myself. I stopped identifying as a Sunni years ago. That was after I realized a simple truth: God named us Muslims. God named us believers. He never named us Sunni. He never named us Shia. If we simply begin with this—the de-labeling of ourselves—we take one step toward unity. One step toward bringing this Ummah together against the force that seeks to erase us all.

The Call

This is what is required of you, my Ummah.

I will call you to what the Mahdi will call you to:

Hold onto the rope of Allah. The Quran.

The one Book that every Muslim on earth agrees is the unchanged, unaltered word of God.

That is the rope. That is the unity. That is the weapon they cannot defeat.

This is what your Spirit is telling you to do.

Do not let your ego convince you otherwise.

Peace,

Amer Sakr, Ph.D.